Although the colon plays several roles in the body in aiding proper digestion, its primary role is extracting water from the feces that your body builds up in the course of consuming food and water throughout the day. Most of what you consume is absorbed before it reaches the large intestine, but what is not absorbed is left for the colon, whose duty is to flush from the body the remaining nutrients. While the colon and its several partsi.e. caecum, ascending, transverse, descending, sigmoid … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2006
My Personal Health and Wellness Struggle
As many of my friends both online and off now know I am facing a dramatic health struggle right now. Despite efforts to educate myself and lead a healthy life I came up against a major roadblock recently. It is a roadblock that has been affecting me for awhile now but circumstances prevented a definitive diagnosis and earlier treatment. So here is my personal struggle with health and wellness I am 28 years old and I have stage three colon cancer. During these last few weeks my fight against … [Read more...]
How To Store Your Garden Produce
I just finished another great book, How to Store Your Garden Produce by Piers Warren. This book shows you how you can eat home grown goodness all year round by preserving your garden produce. In the opening paragraphs it points out that an acre of land can provide food for a family of four for the entire year. BUT much of that produce will become ripe and available for eating at pretty much the same time (during summer), so this is where food storage comes in. If we dont find a way to store our … [Read more...]
Recent Comments